The Old Elizabethan Association

Alan Michael Hunter (4243) died in Guernsey on 28 March 2011, aged 84

When Henry Milnes took over as principal of Elizabeth College in 1939, he inherited a remarkable group of boys.

They were not only extraordinarily clever in the classroom but also extremely talented on the playing field.

We have recorded all the material displayed at the Derbyshire Exile Commemoration event in Buxton during October 2010

To see the collection, click here

A picture of Elizabeth College 1st XI Football team 1944-5 came to light, courtesy of Henry Robin (4453). On the reverse of the picture were the autographs of the players. A M Hunter (4243) is seen on the front row, holding a ball with the date 1945 clearly inscribed on it. There was no fun to be had, then, guessing the names of the footballers or the date of the picture. But there was a story to be told about the OEs in the picture.

By Arthur L. Lee (2693)

This originally appeared in print in the Summer 1950 edition of the Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society.

When I was a very small boy of five years old or six, my father used to take me out for a walk before breakfast and teach me the beginnings of Latin. I remember how the vocabulary began, and realised years afterwards that the first words were the nouns of the Lord's Prayer - pater, coelum. nomen. regnurn, voluntas, terra, and so on.

Roy Lucas (4442)

From Bruce Parker

“I was caught by Henry Milnes there in Dorm 3, having a pillow-fight with Wilson Gaudion!” an excited, retired judge, Geoffrey Heggs, exclaimed. He was pointing to a room in a building where Elizabeth College was in exile during the German occupation of Guernsey. Seventy years on, several other Old Elizabethans have spent a weekend in the Buxton area of Derbyshire to relive their experiences after leaving their homes in Guernsey for an enforced five years away from the island.